Ioan Pop-Curşeu

Ioan Pop-Curşeu is an Associate Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University in the Department of Cinematography and Media, Faculty of Theatre and Television. He also served as Guest Professor at Babeş-Bolyai University's Faculty of Letters and University of Bucharest's Excellence Center for the Study of Image (CESI).

• Current roles: PhD supervisor (Doctoral School of Theatre and Film), director of "Cinemag" book collection (Tact Publishing House)
• Editorial board member: Studia Universitatis Babeş-Bolyai. Dramatica, Ekphrasis, and Steaua magazine

Research interests include film aesthetics, 19th-century French literature (particularly Baudelaire and Flaubert), and anthropological aspects of magic and witchcraft. His recent publications focus on witchcraft iconography in cinema, religious art, and legal codes.

Selected publications analyze:

• Beauty/ugliness dichotomies in witchcraft cinema (2015)
• Historical and anthropological perspectives on European witchcraft (2022-2023)

Scientific awards include:

• "Eta Boeriu" Prize (2014) for Baudelaire scholarship
• International Fellowships from Centre national du livre, Paris (2009, 2013)
• "Clujul literar" Prize (2009) for essay writing

He directs the international collaborative research Magie și vrăjitorie. Perspective istorice, antropologice și artistice and organizes multidisciplinary conferences on witchcraft in arts.